Publications

rickettsiosis in japan.	the rickettsial diseases of man in japan include tsutsugamushi disease (scrub typhus), murine typhus, which occurs sporadically, and one of spotted fever group diseases, recognized as a new entity since 1984. starting from 1976, there has been a remarkable resurgence in the number of reported cases of tsutsugamushi disease in japan after several years of virtual absence, and endemics are still continuing after reaching a prominent outbreak in 1984. its yearly incidences from 1982 to 1986 were 53 ...	1988	3210342
isolation of orientia tsutsugamushi from patients in shikoku and finding of a strain which grows preferentially at low temperatures.	three strains of orientia tsutsugamushi were isolated from patients in anan city, tokushima prefecture. the strains were identified as karp type by analyses of reactivities with type-specific monoclonal antibodies. one strain, okazaki, was isolated in l cells cultivated at 31 c, but not in cells at 36 c or in mice. this strain showed better growth at 31 c than 36 c. this is the first report of an o. tsutsugamushi strain which grows preferentially at low temperatures.	1999	10585145